Post by bayberry on Nov 24, 2010 12:05:33 GMT -5
I'm in my 50's, and I grew up thinking of Batsto as my backyard. We poled leaky sneakboxes on the creeks, paddled leaky canoes on the lakes, and floated leaky rafts down the rivers.
My mother remarried when I was in high school, and we moved to East Philly, which was a complete culture shock, being very much like North Jersey but with a different accent.
Then I moved back to the Pine Barrens. (I live in a town, not in the woods.) I found a lot had changed. Where we used to walk on the rails so we'd feel a train coming, now there are trees growing between the ties. Some of the track aren't even there anymore. There are paths where there never were before, and trails I remember are overgrown, or bridges are gone.
And - people! All over the place! Where in the 60's there was solitude there are now people, or their tracks.
I don't know if this group can accomplish anything. Gipsie's bylaws make me think that maybe it can develop as a resource.
I don't own a 4-wheel drive vehicle. I have nothing good to say about how the roads have been torn up and intersections destroyed by destructive hobbyists who've made it impossible for me to drive into the woods.
If there is a way to keep the bully drivers from making my forest inaccessible to me, I'm all for it.
I know gipsie, Tneigle, and Muck from geocaching.
My mother remarried when I was in high school, and we moved to East Philly, which was a complete culture shock, being very much like North Jersey but with a different accent.
Then I moved back to the Pine Barrens. (I live in a town, not in the woods.) I found a lot had changed. Where we used to walk on the rails so we'd feel a train coming, now there are trees growing between the ties. Some of the track aren't even there anymore. There are paths where there never were before, and trails I remember are overgrown, or bridges are gone.
And - people! All over the place! Where in the 60's there was solitude there are now people, or their tracks.
I don't know if this group can accomplish anything. Gipsie's bylaws make me think that maybe it can develop as a resource.
I don't own a 4-wheel drive vehicle. I have nothing good to say about how the roads have been torn up and intersections destroyed by destructive hobbyists who've made it impossible for me to drive into the woods.
If there is a way to keep the bully drivers from making my forest inaccessible to me, I'm all for it.
I know gipsie, Tneigle, and Muck from geocaching.
